POL 4377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Frankfurt School, Immanence, Social Philosophy
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The interpenetration of opposites, which constitute each other in their mutual confrontation. 3 kinds (relevance to hegel/marx): temporal/transcendent (philosophy of history) The ever evolving and revolutionizing confrontation of opposites: spatial/social. The sublation of particulars into higher universals: phenomenal/immanent. The reciprocal exchange and communication between opposites. Analyzing how disparate objects relate and intertwine. Analyzing how identity is constituted by a relationship with non-identity. Identifying the logic of historical development (of becoming) Focusing on the movement from ideal to material. Sociologically: towards increasing: differentiation/complexity, abstraction, crisis. Identifying contradictory forces whose confrontation opens a window of possible transformation. Identifying immanent potentials for determinate negation and/or sublation. The logic of historical development does not allow for returns the past. I. e. the impossibility of re-constituting earlier syntheses without re- constituting earlier anti-theses. Negation cannot be absolute or abstract, but rather determinate. The only road to the future is through the present. One has to work through one"s history.